THE CRUSADER STATE IS PLAYING ALL ITS USUAL GAMES

* Crusader State is the description given to the U.S.A. by Professor John J. Mearsheimer.

Despite all its rhetoric about all the rogue states it projects onto the world there is in reality only one primary rogue state on the planet, that is the crusader state of the USA.

The Biden administration has finally decided upon the fate of Ukraine. It has recognised that Russia cannot now be stopped from taking all territory to the Dnieper river in Ukraine. The acknowledgement that this will occur has crossed the t’s and dotted the i’s on future policy for their proxies in Kiev. With Russia at the Dnieper the regime will then attack Russia using long-range missiles. This will be the semi-frozen conflict that suits Washington’s purposes. Russia will be required to use further revenues to fight with the regime on a continuing basis, those areas Russia has incorporated into the Russian Federation will continue to be disputed as part of Ukraine and Washington can now turn its attention toward China.

Blinken has just returned from China where the first part of the USA’s game plan for the immediate future was initiated. This comprised the gambit of a spurious warning to Beijing that if it didn’t stop supporting Russia in Ukraine there would be consequences. Of course there was no expectation that China would ever abandon Russia as an ally and the consequences are already prepared and were always intended to be set in motion with the justification that Beijing didn’t do what it was told.

The biggest lie Blinken told in Beijing was that China played a crucial part in assisting Russia in Ukraine, that Russia couldn’t do what it is doing there without China’s crucial assistance in supplying military equipment and parts. This lie was necessary to make China’s part in the conflict appear a major factor, something truly objectionable, objectionable enough for the ‘consequences’ lined up to be fully justifiable. The rhetoric will be along the lines of China being a fundamental threat to European democracy and quite possibly will include the resurrection of the old standby. ‘Evil Empire’.

Blinken made the claim that Russia could hardly do a thing in Ukraine without China’s help just as Russia finds that its military capacity is in fact greater than required and that an excess of weaponry and munitions will now be stockpiled. To assert that Russia needs China to continue fighting in Ukraine is blatant hogwash. A necessary hogwash however, required to give a patena of surface credibility to the financial and economic attacks that the USA has long planned for China. For China was always to be the main target for the crusader state. The original plan for dissolving and reconstitution the Russian state via conflict with Ukraine was meant to be accomplished over a very short time period as Russia disintegrated due to the financial and economic sanctions applied to it. This having failed a new game plan (detailed at the head of this commentary) has been agreed.

The game plan for Russia has very little likelihood of success however. Russia, having arrived at the Dnieper will continue to have overwhelming superiority of both offence and defence. Russia’s air defence systems will repel all but a very few Ukrainian missiles. It will also down any F16s or other aircraft the West supplies the Kiev regime. Russia’s own air force will have air superiority across all that is left of Ukraine while Russia’s satellites, having far less territory for their surveillance range will allow accurate targeting for missile systems brought up to the new battle lines by the Dnieper. Russia will still hold all the cards in terms of resources, manpower, munitions supply and weaponry. Rump Ukraine will not be any better off and in fact will be much easier to induce into agreeing to negotiations leading to a final settlement.

Sooner or later there will have to be elections in Ukraine. Either that or a permanent dictatorship will be installed with Zelensky as the 'Great Leader’ continuing his already draconian rule of repression and security apparatus intimidation. However, should elections take place there can be little doubt that the Ukrainian people, given the chance, will run Zelensky and his minions out of office with alacrity. The new president and government of Ukraine will then without doubt reflect the by now long determined and fervent wish for peace with Russia. Washington’s plans will then lie in ruins with no possible way forward in their scheme to achieve regime change in Russia and the dismantlement of the Russian state and break up of the nation into manageable parts.

Yet still the machinations of the American political elites will continue. Plan after plan will be agreed and initiated for there is clearly no retreating for the crusader state. Always another crusade will be required, another overseas enterprise that can feed its military industrial complex and in so doing guarantee its supply of contributions to their electoral campaign coffers. The deadly game plan for others will continue. Yet Russia will be out of their grasp and Ukraine also. The focus on China and their determination to make it the mother of all crusades will become their final, last gasp attempt to shore up their fast ending dominance over others. De-dollarization by the time this point is reached will have reached a peak and finally, sometime in the following years the crusaders will finally find they have undeniably lost every last one of their iniquitous crusades. 

OLD, AMATEUR, SICK & UNTRAINED - THE UKRAINIAN ARMY NOW

As the conflict in Ukraine grinds on myths that were spread in the West regarding a noble struggle by a heroic Ukraine against an evil Russia are being exploded by the day. A tragedy is being exposed.

The Ukrainian army was sent to eastern Ukraine to assert the authority of the illegal Ukrainian government that took over after the Maidan coup in 2014. It was an army that had suffered underinvestment of all kinds in the years preceding this time. Subsequently its cack-handed approach to the civilian population in eastern Ukraine was unsurprising. Violence soon broke out as resistance to this armed force was inevitable. Diplomacy ought to have been the way forward but after the ultraviolence seen in the insurrection that brought the new regime into being (backed by the USA, UK and EU) diplomacy had been all but abandoned in Ukraine.

The Ukrainian army sent to discipline the rebellious majority in eastern Ukraine, after stirring up the resentment and opposition that led inevitably to violence were however, not strongly motivated enough for the regime and so the most extreme of the ultranationalists who had played a decisive part in the Maidan coup were used for this purpose. Given mortars and shells they set up outside Donbass villages, towns and cities and fired at random into them. They were unconcerned where these shells fell or who they killed or maimed as a consequence. The most radical of those who arrived hated ALL those who spoke Russian rather than Ukrainian they called ‘Moskals’. Those they considered to be Russian no matter that they lived in Ukraine. They spoke Russian and that was enough for these extremists. Whether the elderly, women, children, it didn’t matter to them. they were all Moskals, Russians. The structures most commonly hit were the Soviet era residential blocks but also hit were hospitals, school buildings and government offices.  

The radicals off the Maidan were eventually incorporated officially into the Ukrainian national guard and it remains the case that these are the ideologically-motivated forces that continue to fight in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict today. Their numbers however are much reduced by this point due to the Russian military tactic of attrition. The numbers too of the NATO-trained troops have been very much reduced also. And the Ukrainian army that first arrived in the Donbass to discipline the civilian population there is all but gone, wiped out by the overwhelming advantage the Russian army has had over the last two years. 

Now the Ukrainian regime is scrambling to take whoever it can get into its now much reduced army. For some time now it has been incorporating increasingly older men and at times women into its forces. It began many months ago to violently take men off the street, bundling them into cars, giving them a week or two of training (if that) before sending them off to be cannon-fodder on the front lines. The average age of a Ukrainian trooper now stands at 43 years of age. Even a disabled, Downs Syndrome man has been seen in uniform at the front. Those being sent there include the increasingly young and always the partially trained. They then find themselves in a meat-grinder where they never even see a Russia but are only pummelled day and night by Russian artillery fire.

Yet even while the above goes on relentlessly day by day with a toll of some 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers being lost to the battlefield and Russia taking ever more territory the western political elites refuse to contemplate peace negotiations. Their goal was always to weaken Russia and initiate regime change there and this goal remains in place. The hapless and largely incapable Ukrainian troops, the majority of whom by now never wished to be there, are mere tools for the West and expendable tools at that. The cynicism involved is off the scale. Only the ideologically motivated neo-Nazi forces such as the AZOV and Right Sector monsters fight on enthusiastically. There can be no question and increasingly so, that all other Ukrainians who have been sent into the eastern meatgrinder simply wish to go home to their families.

There is no shining white innocent Ukraine fighting the evil black-hearted Russians. That myth is long exploded as more and more look deeper into the West-generated origins of this tragic war that Russia never wanted and tried (for almost a decade) to prevent. The Ukrainians who have been led to the slaughter by the West, apart from the most extreme nationalists are hapless and helpless victims of the Kiev regime led by Zelensky and his western masters. They are ultimately the most intolerably and cynically abused victims in this entire tragic scenario, along with the entire nation of Ukraine. mere pawns in the western ambition to undermine Russia. They deserve our sympathy as they die in ever-increasing numbers. The old, amateur, sick and untrained.

IS VON DER LEYEN’S WARMONGERING BUREAUCRACY ABOUT TO FALL

 

Narratives on Russia and Ukraine by Europe's political elites are totally out of synch with popular opinion. The disconnect between its elites and Europe's population now awaits an opportunity for expression.

Viktor Orban of Hungary is leading the charge, however Robert Fico of Slovakia cannot be far behind. The EU, led by the much hated Ursula von der Leyen, could be facing another kind of revolt, from the European populace. The signs are all there when you know where to look. Sentiment on the war policies exhibited by the vast majority of western leaders including those who head the EU is clear. The man and women on the street don’t buy the narratives on Ukraine broadcast constantly by their political elites. As the conflict in Ukraine has gone on people have gradually become more curious as to its origins and find that their leaders are, to put it baldly, lying through their teeth on the subject.

Western leaders have got themselves into a real mess over Ukraine and rather than attempt to extricate themselves from that mess by facing reality they have instead chosen to get themselves even deeper into the mire by continuing to spread their fantasies. This of course would not matter all that much except for one fact. Hundreds of thousands have died as a result. up to half a million in fact. By relentlessly pushing for ever more war rather than accepting the offers for a negotiated peace by Russia the Europeans have slavishly followed the lead of the USA with disastrous consequences for the Ukrainians.

The equanimity with which the European political elites have, through following the North American lead, brought half a million Ukrainians to their death and blithely contemplated the destruction of Ukraine in order to weaken Russia is an unconscionable stain on Europe. Using NATO to pressure Russia into its special military operation through the sham process of Minsk is well known to Europeans. Merkel, Hollande and later, Macron used near criminal deception to avoid the peaceful outcome Russia sought. The majority of Europeans can surely not have missed the many articles describing this shameful process.

With elections coming ever closer across Europe the likelihood is strong that a great many of those who have promoted war with Russia through both Ukraine and NATO will be swept from power. This sea change in European politics cannot come soon enough. As we have seen in both Hungary and Slovakia the urgency among the general population for change in Europe is there. Soon its voice is likely to be heard all across the European continent and the sound of that common voice is almost certainly going to be resoundingly loud.

WE WILL BE #1 ON THIS PLANET… OR YOU WILL ALL DIE

What is the underlying nature of the global conflict that we see consuming the attention of western political elites currently and what might the consequences be for every last one of us?

Whether you believe 9/11 was an inside job or was the result of international terrorism, it has as a consequence, resulted in a drive for permanent and unquestioned global dominance by the USA and its proxies. Through this drive for complete, overarching wardenship over the entire planet and via this, unfettered access to all modes of communication and unlimited ability to punish incorrect thoughts and deeds, the USA and its proxies mean to achieve ‘full spectrum dominance’ worldwide.

It was already assumed before 9/11 that due to the exceptional nature of the USA that the assertion of its will on the world would be its most worthy beneficial act in honour of  the God that had blessed them with the power to effect this task. The mythology of the pilgrim fathers fleeing despotic regimes demanded that all such regimes in modern times be overthrown. This only seemed right, indeed a duty. This project was however, in the background before 9/11, lacking the powerful impulse that 9/11 would give it. After 9/11 it became perceived as a messianic necessity.

 The impulse above is singular in its path and those who feel themselves charged with effecting this holy duty do not, cannot and never will question its rightness nor conceive of any alternate path. The zealots who hold all this in dedication as their life’s work to achieve will accept nothing less. There can be no deviation from the goal of complete and unrivalled global domination. Failing to reach this goal is unthinkable. The western world MUST be made safe within the great stage of universal democracy, firmly held in place by those who can be trusted to preserve it through transforming all rival systems into mirror images of itself.

Until the goal of total liberal elite dominance worldwide is achieved no project can be allowed to rival it. No other issue will significantly affect its pursuit, nothing can be allowed to distract from its urgent deliverance. No law, jurisdiction, concept of sovereignty, nor ethical or moral code will be allowed to present a barrier to those actions deemed necessary to achieve it in its entirety. The goal, unquestioned and unquestionable, will be pursued despite any and all negative outcomes no matter how unthinkable they may have been previously. No limit will ever be placed upon the actions deemed necessary to achieve a successful final outcome.

The agreement to these necessary changes has been enforced in all nations within the orbit of U.S. control largely without question. Those within the orbit who refuse to any degree will be undermined through attack by all means considered necessary until they relent or are replaced. A unified front is the essential tool through which target nations will be rendered compliant or have their unacceptable modes of governance dismantled and replaced. Unity of purpose and coordinated action among members enable the directed power to overcome and destroy any and all adversaries… without exception. Constant adherence to agreed narratives against all adversaries being essential.

The ultimate end result envisioned is a planet monitored in depth where all adversaries have been eliminated and replaced, where any trace of opposition to the new order is speedily identified and nullified. No rogue elements will be allowed to escape the filtration process presently underway. All such elements require removal by extreme prejudice and replacement by conforming entities willing to embrace every positive element within the necessary, post 9/11 changes. Any and all opposition will be destroyed toward the end goal of global stability, individual freedom and world peace. No alternative reality is acceptable.

If the USA and its proxies find insurmountable difficulty in the tasks named above this of course will be entirely unacceptable, the consequences then will be grave indeed…

WE WILL BE #1 ON THIS PLANET… OR YOU WILL ALL DIE

ON THE ROAD TO ARMAGEDDON IN UKRAINE WITH NO PLAN B. WHY SO?

Why has the situation in Ukraine become the overwhelming, almost single focus, of western foreign policy with apparently no plan B but only a steady march toward ever more escalation?

SCENARIO 1: Russia Wants To Rule The World (Or At Least Europe)

In this scenario providing a reason for the ‘all or nothing’ western plan now in progress is that the western powers have data, covertly retrieved from Russia, that the Russians plan to take over the world, or at least invade and take over Europe. If this is the case, barring the risk of revealing sources and methods, wouldn’t you think they would tell western audiences what they have gleaned, at least in outline? Instead we have received only speculation from both western officials and commentators alike on this point.

If Russia was poised to invade and occupy Europe why, by common perception, is Russia taking such a long time on its takeover in Ukraine? Besides the fact that no Russian official has stated Russia wants to occupy Europe where would the Russians come from to not only accomplish the task but presumably to run and control everything afterwards? The days when armies of tens of millions could be put together, trained and paid for are over, especially for Russia with an economy that has been compared with that of South Korea.

Something else is clearly at stake regarding the West’s overwhelming desire to throw money at Ukraine with a view to defeating Russia there?

SCENARIO 2: The Good Guys Of The West Want Freedom & Democracy For All

You know this meme well from all the regime change wars of the recent past that the USA and its allies have engaged in, in the recent past. It is portrayed in similar terms as the Crusades mounted by Richard the lionheart and others against the Arabs of Jerusalem. The good guys have decided to engage the tyrants and slay all those metaphorical dragons rescuing the equally metaphorical princesses. It has nothing to do with maintaining influence, power and lucrative sources of energy or income.

I suspect most of those reading this will have long discounted these saintly reasons for the expenditure of vast amounts of blood and treasure involved in these regime change wars of choice. Power, influence, resources and hard cash are much more persuasive elements when it comes to political and geopolitical decision making. Besides, all done at the cost of half a million Ukrainian lives? What kind of gift to Ukraine is that?

So what does this leave? Why must we all be taken to the brink of Armageddon due to a dispute between two Slavic nations that despite eight long years of trying (by one side at least) could not be resolved?

SCENARIO 3: The West Is Losing Its Long-Held Global Dominance & Can’t Have That

The last few decades, other than see western regime change wars fail, has seen nations such as China and Russia rise to become a combined peer competitor of the West. No one should underestimate the positive features that come with global dominance. The ability to manipulate nations far from your shores, persuade them to listen to you and be swayed by you due to your power, and to therefore set the stage for wealth accumulation, guaranteed energy flows for you and your endless power accumulation, is quite an asset to lose.

These new kids on the block, Russia and China, are obstinately resistant to doing your bidding as you are used to. They want to go their own way rather than do things your way. What does this signify to the political elites of the West whose institutions are universally set up to take advantage of a situation where the West is in power… always? All the perks of power that have been accepted as guaranteed are now at risk. And, if the situation is not dealt with urgently, every last perk could disappear one after another till at last they are all gone? How would THAT feel? 

This last scenario, in my view, is the one that most likely lies behind the seemingly endless risks the western powers are willing to take in Ukraine, risks that could put the rest of us, kept well outside the corridors of power, directly on the road to Armageddon. 

THE WEST’S QUADRUPLE WHAMMY: DEMILITARISED, INDEBTED, DEINDUSTRIALISED & SIMPLY *PLAIN DUMB*

Could the West get any worse? You bet. All it will take is for nothing to change at the top, for the dumbest mofos ever, who clawed their way up the greasy pole of power, to remain dumbly in place.

Arsenals across the western world have been drained of weapons. Supplying the Ukrainian regime with a vast assortment of weapons has been an abiding priority for over two years now.  None of the weapons supplied so far, including the so-called gamechangers, have changed the course of the war. The Russian military has continued to incrementally grind down the cannon-fodder sent to oppose it along with decimating every piece of military equipment soon after its arrival. This attrition of weaponry that parallels the attrition of Ukraine’s manpower has left the USA and its proxies woefully short of military supplies.

There has been a lot of specious talk in recent months about the non-existent plan that Russia has to conquer all Europe. Perhaps it isn’t such a good idea to suggest this to Russia when you have drained your warehouses of most of the weaponry and ammunition you would need to fight the Russian’s off? The already significant demilitarising of the USA and Europe however has not brought about a call for its halt in high places. New tranches of spending for both Ukraine and Israel are now in the process of being agreed both in the USA and EU. This is just plain dumb.

The size of the North American national debt is fast approaching thirty four trillion dollars. Yet the spending spree by western warmongers shows no sign of letting up. Billions are being spent apparently gleefully as if we are approaching the end of the world and nothing much matters any more. What’s a few more billions among friends? Mere chicken feed. It’s all going to end in a few puffs of smoke soon anyway. More plain dumb behaviour as these warhawks are bringing it all on. Don’t they have something far better to do than invite Armageddon?

Deindustrialisation of the USA must surely be taking its toll just as the weapons industry reaches peak profits. The average North American is shouting louder with each day that passes about how the ‘American Dream’ has turned into a nightmare. As infrastructure falls increasingly apart money is siphoned off to nations far, far from the USA’s borders. And talking of those borders scant funds appear to be flowing toward the southern U.S. border where illegal immigrants do flow constantly northward. More dumb behaviour here.

The deindustrialisation of the USA’s proxies in Europe has reached a stage that North America will only approach over the next year or two. Germany, once the unchallenged economic and industrial powerhouse of Europe is descending rapidly with one dumb decision after another being enthusiastically made. The Germans are aghast at the sheer stupidity of their current woeful crop of political elites. They see the hard work of generations being thrown away in just two short years due to the unwarranted decisions being made in what were meant to be attacks upon Russia. All have backfired bringing every greater pain at their source. Dumb, very dumb and even dumber.

Back in the good old USA, a very old blunderer by the name of Biden is making sure that the debt mountain there is virtually impossible to climb. Throwing good money after bad as his son Hunter was wont to do seems to indicate the worst possible trait in that family. As the saying goes, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. And has there been anything quite as corrupt in recent years as Hunter Biden’s well-heeled sinecure in Ukraine courtesy of his father. The Burisma affair was about as blatantly dumb as it gets, corruption, nepotism and influence-peddling in plain sight. 

What next for the woefully dumbed down West? Could it possibly get even dumber? How so? With the re-election of Joe “Where the hell am I” Biden and his gruesome cast of neocon zombie warmongers. That would outdumb all those other dumbnesses now wouldn’t it?  

THE WEST’S QUADRUPLE WHAMMY: DEMILITARISED, INDEBTED, DEINDUSTRIALISED & SIMPLY *PLAIN DUMB*

WHY WE MUST FIGHT FOR A MULTIPOLAR WORLD

Must we put up with our world as it has been until now and is arguably more now than ever before? That is, a world constantly at war? Or is there an alternative future we might aspire to & fight for?

The first reason why we must fight for a multipolar world is simply because the alternative is well known to us and is essentially a world always at war.

The second reason is that the alternative, if the currently dominant regional power, the western world, succeeds in its quest to become not only dominant regionally but eventually globally, the ultimate outcome will be a virtual prison planet.

The collective west is seeking to subdue all powers outside its current orbit, to weaken and subvert them in order to subsume them under its control. This quest encompasses both reasons above in that:

The likelihood is that the collective west’s goal of regime change for all nations not under its control will never succeed, at least not in our lifetime and most likely not ever. However, the wars initiated will breed ever more conflict leading to the ‘forever war’ scenario envisaged by some.

 In the extremely unlikely event of the collective west achieving its goal of subduing and replacing all current national leaderships and systems of governance and replacing them with proxies that accept collective west leadership then the prison planet scenario will emerge.

There were times in recent history when it seemed that we might overcome the scourge of war as an ever-present reality. However, looking at the world as it is today we can see that this was a vain hope if present geopolitical realities continue without substantial change.

In the unlikely event of the collective west, led by the United States gaining full global control after subduing all nations not now under its control, we will find ourselves increasingly monitored for risks to the new global system of governance that would come into existence with the supreme dominance of the West. Surveillance from near space would become a global reality. Hardly a single gathering, phone call, email or financial transaction would escape logging, and where considered necessary, follow up action. George Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’ would well and truly become our everyday reality.

If you adhere to the school of thought that says, “If you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to fear”, i.e. that global monitoring would be a good thing in that policing, and therefore personal safety, would be enhanced. However, if you feel that ‘Big Brother’ knowing so much about you is a threat and would be abused by those in authority then you will agree that this is an unwelcome eventuality.

A unipolar world where one power completely dominates all others or a near unipolar world where one region is constantly instigating and fighting wars to become the universal power with ‘full spectrum dominance’ can be quite easily seen as a world where fear of one kind or another will certainly dominate.

A multipolar world where power is shared among nations, where each nation has inviolable sovereignty no matter what form of governance prevails is, I would argue, a world far more likely to realise goals such as reasonably permanent stability and every prospect to deliver peace. Nations who share power and who prioritise trade above all else where agreements are formed outside of potential areas of disagreement such as the religion practiced or system of governance will surely have much less reason to fight wars. With the most significant reasons for war having little to no priority, i.e. religion and politics, the business of building bridges between cultures can progress far more successfully than now.

The urge of the collective west to impose its religion, values and political structures on others with the aim of converting all nations into its own likeness, often by subversion, sanctions, propaganda or regime change wars, is the primary cause of the instability and perpetual conflict we see occurring today. This drive for supreme dominance is, more likely than not, doomed to fail, the reasons for which Professor John J. Mearsheimer has eloquently explained in his video lecture and book ‘The Great Delusion’. This does not mean that the western powers will ever be in any mood to give up this goal. Not unless some means is found to convince those leaders of a better way forward. Failing this the only remaining way to achieve this will be to build a great enough resistance to the western way of war.

The BRICS group best exemplifies the principles that would underpin a future multipolar world. Nations working together building trading networks of cooperation and mutually beneficial agreement, irrespective of diverse factors between them such as religion or systems of governance. A world therefore of sovereign nations of diverse backgrounds, cultures, religions and political modes of governance where tolerance not intolerance (of these factors mentioned) exists as a constant background to peace and stability.

These are the reasons why we must fight for a multipolar world.